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Costa Samaras

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Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jan 21

If you’re new to Bluesky, welcome. A starter pack is an easy way to find folks to follow. Want to know what all these new energy regulations mean for your wallet, your lungs, and the climate? Here are my computer friends who work on climate: go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

salt bagel, lox, cream cheese, capers, onions, tomato

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

part of the conditions for reopening the govt should be clawing back these slush funds

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Even as FBI is being downsized, it must allocate more of its resources to the only part of the govt that is growing: immigration enforcement.
The scale of this growth is hard to comprehend. DHS has a slushfund of $10B - bigger than the old ICE budget - to pay other agencies and state & local cops.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15h

They did this to a child. Shameful.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h

same thing but for poster's madness

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h

hope you feel better soon, take care

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h

wind and solar elkos low and getting lower www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

www.politico.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17h

rising capital costs and long lead times for natural gas turbines have pushed new build elkos through the roof

rolls off the tongue

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17h

someone on here said an IPA beer in Italy is pronounced eepa

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17h

thinking about starting to pronounce LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) as elko

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20h

[yakety sax music intensifies]

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21h

about 2-3 weeks of mil compensation (correcting my other post) www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Atlas of Military Compensation | Congressional Budget Office

In the President’s 2024 budget request, total military compensation is $551 billion, including veterans' benefits. That amount represents an increase of 134 percent since 1999 after removing the effec...

www.cbo.gov

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 21h

It's suggested that a section in the March Continuing Resolution authorized this transfer of funds, a fact which was not reported in any news coverage I've seen about this and in direct conflict with what NYT said, which was that it's from Pentagon R&D 2-year funding.

bsky.app/profile/egoj...

The White House budget office said only that the money would be sourced from research and development funds previously approved for the Pentagon for a two-year period, but offered no further details about the president’s plans.

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Craig @galadin.bsky.social · 1d

Rogers Park Chicaho protecting our own.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Consistent with Combo Meal II authority

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

tired: soft power

wired: crunch power

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: in the rest of the world this flavor is known as Cool American. Once again the Trump government is undermining our image and influence abroad.

Cool ranch chips but they say cool American.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

HUD’s ability to enforce fair housing laws was further gutted by the administration’s actions yesterday.

This is on top of the agency’s firing of 70% of its fair housing attorneys since January.

This will allow discrimination by race, sex, and disabilities to become more common—and go unpunished.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

I remember when the covid vaccine first came out. For immunocomprised folks in my family and for my parents, it felt like a miracle. In terms of federal science & R&D, it really was. Now RFK is tearing it all down because of the brain worm that lives rent-free in his head. People will get sick.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Got these things at CVS before RFK JR makes them illegal

- covid vaccine booster
- flu vaccine
- cool ranch doritos

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Apr 25

Futureposting:

WASHINGTON, D.C. With 1 million new federal workers onboarded and existing workers supported and empowered to get things done, Americans are the happiest about the direction of the country than they’ve been in decades.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · Apr 25

Such a terrific and awful cluster. DOGE will cost the United States hundreds of billions more when whatever emergency at home or abroad tests the United States and we will have gutted our government capacity to do anything. We are profoundly screwed for the next crisis across a range of areas.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 25

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

This is why Democrats need to keep the shutdown going indefinitely.

The administration is acting lawlessly. There’s no check from Congress and no effort to find a middle ground.

Refusal to cooperate is the only response.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr. continues to consolidate power and assimilate the CDC under his personal control with these targeted illegal firings

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire Washington staff and MMWR editors

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

has the livestock emissions tax reduced emissions?

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